New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-11
as OTHERS SEE Us.
MR.. wATTERsoN's IMPRESSION OF NETWORK AND
NFw-YORKERS.

MR.. wATTERsoN's IMPRESSION OF NEw-YoRK AND
NFw-YORKERs
From an Editorial LenT 10 the LOutsre CourrJourndL
II were asked classify NewYork to list and rate
4. n. they say on the stock Exchange should be
nzzed lust where TO place H. Each OF the great cities
of tho world las certain distinguishing oharacerlsics
~ ia own For glitter. Paris; for grandeur VIENNA
for pomp pride and circumstance, London Berlin ex
lists for tho Germans and is purely German city
metropolis NewYorx an imitator Il has no diosyn
Grassy 1t has taken ite mere ana tss ,erc anu
once described 1t apng the bad manners OF ti,e
English aud the bad morals OF me French oo dnM, ora
IA the English. to the NewYorkers VINO nave oeaer
The cad who d1~Ies n Ip Sve a affair With an
actress and get drunk with lord Is surely quiz ~
drawine room But Dxey. with his song. hasdone deal
70 ridculc and smash the Anglomana, WHEN ~ e e
vears ago was taking possession OF the town Win lts
stlIv and brutal afec atoms The girls Murray Hill
are very much up to snun now. ana as u Gnlse
"norcc The bovs who come apace are beginning 10
due.t,on the orthodoxy OF Burkes Peerage as socia
bible. There ia n marked Improvement IN manners rs
iattnrv and IA for morals they none too good IN
M ~ ,be ~rsa cities TO bear much investigation.
fhe New Yorker is something OF cross between ,le
parisian and the Iondoner He has seen both either on
tb soil or here and has taken the foreign meas
IRE with shrowdness peculiarly ms own IN are
OF life and character To DC seen OF "ann"''" ~ ~
for the most part importatlons: nam. o,o,a,.
The tragedies related by the New YORK papers ena"sc
largely from alien classes considerable modicun oi
health which springs from busy lives ana henlai
vitality prevails among the sh3p peoPe ~ 10 horn
earv 10 trust none but themselves Among lhe 1oIn
Xmscans there IA less drunkenness and Its attendant
train of horrors than IN common Ia LONDON anu III 70
aod napicuIariy with respect to the amusing pase OF
wfeheaiing which marks the one, and TIE Jealous 70
course OF wie-kng. so prevalent IN tne ". nnanop
New-York scamp who wearies OF his femaie companion
eher abandons her and escapes 10 Chicago or SEN hs
TO friend He ia more prudent ana sensoie 'na Gis
prototype the Anglosaxon DIu'e ,rDoa,,na bava so
romancist whom the gallows and the guilone nave 30
little no yer 10 tcrrfy and restrain. ,, M "a a, q,
The gayoty OF NewYork Is not so foieinn as Una. ~
onJon nor so volatile that OF Pans III is stragHs
out from the shoulder and directly to inc
could have been produced by New orser, nor ph
Eew-York have furnished the suburban JOKES i,,..
have CONSTITUTED the most amusing pictures ana nomes
OF Punch the last forty years Comic stua rb , y
ms rare in New-York excess OF sentimenI i,mv,,sh
Ths adventures OF Count Rodolphe OF Gefols. ~
distinctiyely French Tho Tweed Tragedy eaas In
Cesbrc NeIi 10 the funeral OF General Grant N p,,
York gave tho ostentatious public ~ 70
Pol. ,hs There il little or 10 hunor 10
The nstbsr side OF life here The wits OF New YORK. IKE
Vrrpianok aud Trayers. have been genes ~
stardiue and wealth. The humorisls RON Washington
Irving 70 Lawrence Jerome-yery diuerent cnaia0'e''